IT’S a matter of when, not if, Brad Jones Racing will have the opportunity to flourish with its new Toyota Supra, according to recruit Cameron Hill.

Hill is coming off a strong 2025 season in which he entered Supercars’ winners list before inking a multi-year deal to join BJR.

It’s been a relatively quiet summer for the Canberran as he awaits fatherhood status any day now, and a maiden drive of the V8 Toyota.

“I think we all view this as a fantastic opportunity to get BJR back to the front of the grid,” Hill, who visited the Albury workshop last week, told V8 Sleuth.

“It wasn’t that long ago that they were third in the teams’ championship, so we want to get up the pointy end again.

“We sort of spoke about how we want to approach it and obviously with the new car there could be challenges, but the priority for us is we just work really well together as a team and all the engineers and drivers agree on that: if we’re strong as a group, then everyone will benefit.”

The Toyota Supra during demonstration laps at Bathurst. Pic: Mark Walker

Both his teammates André Heimgartner and Macauley Jones, and both Walkinshaw TWG Racing drivers Chaz Mostert and Ryan Wood have now sampled the Supra, leaving Hill as the last man standing.

He also has the biggest degree of unknown among the quintet given he is the only one changing team from 2025 to ‘26.

“I’m coming in very open-minded,” said Hill.

“As I was sort of discussing with the guys at BJR, there’s going to come a time when we get the opportunity to shine this year and whether that’s at the very first round or a little bit later once we’ve got a handle on it, we have just got to make sure we can make the most of the opportunity when it comes.

“For me, it’s exciting. It’s a new challenge.”

A core part of slowing down over the off-season has revolved around playing padel with fellow Canberran Supercars steerer Zach Bates and the latter’s rallying cousins Harry and Lewis.

“At the moment I think (Zach) is undefeated but it’s probably more that his cousin Lewis is probably the best of us. They always play together; he won’t mind me saying that!” said Hill.

“Me and Harry, we still need to pick up our game if we’re going to beat them.”

Looking to the on-track action ahead, blending Hill’s qualifying speed with Heimgartner’s long-run prowess should make for an intriguing combo atop BJR’s line-up.

“André, he is a great racing car driver. Sometimes you don’t actually see him until the second half of the race and all of a sudden he has found himself in a good spot and that’s because he is very good at getting the most out of the car and he’s a very consistent, fast driver,” said Hill.

“There’s no doubt things that I’m going to learn from him and if I can bring something to the table as well, that’d be good.

“One thing that really encourages me is I can see at BJR we’ve got a really strong brains trust, we’ve got a lot of experience in the engineering department and we’ve also got a few young guys as well who are very talented.

“Everyone is talking about how we can all row in the same direction and try to find what works for these race cars.”

BJR is yet to announce driver/engineer combinations nor enduro co-drivers for the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship.